As the race for the 2023 presidential contest draws near,Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has revealed that in the All Progressive Congress, APC, there is a gentleman agreement that the Nigerian presidency should rotate.

The Minister however added that the decision was taken to ensure the stability of the nation.

He also said the agreement was never written in the party’s Constitution .

“It is not written in our constitution. But it will make for stability and fairness if it rotates back to the South. I was in PDP we practiced it” he said

He said he was among the ‘wise men’ who drafted the APC constitution.

“I was one of the wise men that drafted the APC Constitution with Chief Segun Osoba as head. That’s what we agreed on; that we don’t have to insert it but these are things that could be done by gentleman agreement” he told Thisday

The Minister said it was the agreement that guided the APC during it’s presidential convention where President Muhammadu Buhari emerged in 2014.

“Whether there should be rotation, zoning or not for me is a simple matter. It is a gentleman agreement. Even the American constitution doesn’t have everything written in it” he added.

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